INTERNATIONAL: Aftermath and Beginning

The one overpowering fact about the
Moscow Conference was still the fact of agreement. Precisely what was
said, done, promised or put off was still the guarded secret of the
homeward-bound U.S. and British delegations and of their Russian
colleagues. London and Washington did not forget that the Moscow
meeting was only a preliminary to the promised meeting of Franklin
Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. But in every world
capital the declarations had been weighed. A consensus of
interpretation developed:

Postponement must have been a large word in Moscow; practically none of
the difficult, specific and all-important mechanics for...